A round of rain and freezing rain is expected to hit the area late Sunday night and into Monday, followed by much colder temperatures. Roads will be extremely slick as the melted slush from Sunday will refreeze overnight.

Maine Turnpike Authority spokesman Dan Morin says crews are keeping the highways clear, but will not be applying sand or salt due to the expected rain. Morin says any preventative treatment would be washed away, so the best advice for drivers is to expect a slippery road surface in the coming days.

In Portland, crews were busy Sunday scraping the main arteries of the hard snow pack that had formed from the blizzard and subzero temperatures. Public Works Director Mike Bobinsky expected most of those main roads to be cleared by Sunday night.

He warns, however, many of the secondary and residential side streets are still covered with snow, slush and high snow banks, and urges drivers and pedestrians to be careful.

The first real test of the new snow ban parking parameters went relatively well, according to Bobinsky, with only a few vehicles being towed on Thursday and Friday.